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Emerging Physics
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Emerging Physics

by Avinash W. Joshi, Vijay H. Raybagkar, Vijayshri, Keith V. Desa, Rajendra Mahamuni, Bhausaheb Shivajirao Bendre
July 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
178 pages
6h 49m
English
Pearson India
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Chapter 1

 

1 The word scientist itself was coined in 1833 by William Whewell at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

2 A search for Zeno's paradox on the Internet throws up interesting results, which give the details. For example, you may like to consult the relevant part of the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/.

3 In fact, he did not know matrix algebra at that time. Born and Jordan realized that what Heisenberg had used were matrices.

4 Pauli wrote a book on special theory of relativity at the age of 18. It is still a classic textbook on the subject.

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